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Are fibreglass tanks actually legal?

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MrDavo:
While I’m not condoning their use, or suggesting your mate should use one, when I was Classic racing I was putting blue Avgas 100LL (I queued up at a local airport with my Jerry cans) into the fibreglass tank on my Triton with no problems whatsoever, despite occasional crash testing.

I got the last laugh at Ty Croes, where I found a fellow racer who told me I was wasting my money, peering down the hole in his piston crown.

SumpMagnet:
I got this wierd vision of a long queue of cafe racers etc. all lining up on the slip road approach to Heathrow with jerry-cans bungeed to the back......

Just don't mix up Avgas with jet fuel...

Arch stanton:
A mate of mine built a race replica, using s new grp tank. He left E5 petrol in the tank over winter. It was a mass of blisters up to the fuel line.
Tank ruined. E10 can only be worse.

MrDavo:
The queuing up for Avgas was rather bizarre, me in my old Mercedes estate, in the queue for the pump behind a couple of Cessnas. I won’t name the airport as selling me the fuel at all, without an aeroplane in sight, was of dubious legality, and maybe they still do it.

No problem with the road tax element as I was going racing, but I think the understanding was that I was taking the Avgas away to put into my light aircraft.

MrDavo:
 ;)

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